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funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people

Wigging out, daycare-style

“My 1-year-old likes to play with hair when she’s sleepy,” writes Michelle in Columbia, South Carolina…a habit which apparently didn’t go over so well at day care with the fair-haired Ms. Linda. [Hahahaha RAGE BLACKOUT emoticon!!!!]

Judging by the sample given- Ms. Linda wasn’t treating her hair nicely to begin with. That wasn’t ripped from the scalp, it broke in mid-strand. Shame on Ms. Linda for trying to score a wig because the baby pulled loose her split ends.

Could it be that Ms. Linda is a Mad Scientist looking for a substitute for Propecia* that is safe and effecetive for women ?

*In the process of researching Propecia (finasteride) for this comment,
I encountered the following sentences related to the risk of birth defects. Readers familiar with FDA protocols in general or the specific methods of differential risk assessment between absorption through skin via the handling of crushed or broken tablets and the other pathway described here are encouraged to comment on why we should believe the 2nd sentence if we assume the 1st one to be true.

1)Women who are or who may become pregnant must not handle crushed or broken finasteride tablets, because the medication could be absorbed through the skin.

2) Finasteride may pass into the semen of men, but Merck states that a pregnant woman’s contact with the semen of a man taking finasteride is not an issue for concern.

She was just trying to get Ms. Linda to join the collective.
If Linda successfully resists Seven, there’s a pair of newborn twins
in store for her next year in Resistance is Futile: The Day Care WYears.

*spoiler alert*
After Ms. Linda is assimilated, the collective’s Day Care Module is finally defeated with the introduction of the new schoolmarm (Zhaan from Farscape, whose tactical advantage is obvious to fans of the series).

I think Michelle is delusional to write this off as “my kid likes to play with her hair when she’s sleepy”. How does that equate to ripping out a chunk of another person’s hair? Man, if I had to take care of kids all day, I’d send PAN too. I’d also start drinking mid-day and probably be a secret cutter, too.

Thank you for standing up for the rights of Happy Hour aficionados. For far too long, we’ve kept mum while mums and their (our?) babies have seemed hellbent on ruining what would otherwise be a lovely experience.

(There are plenty of places for mothers and their babies to go without disrupting the two-hour window of bliss that half-priced well-drinks provide to us like-minded souls. After all, that’s precisely the reason that attics, basements, garages, treehouses, and garden sheds were built for in the first place, wasn’t it?)

Look, I know babies are wily little creatures that manage to get into a surprising amount of trouble, but how do you let a one-year-old get a death grip on your tresses? Boo on you if you can’t manage to use a stiff jab to keep the baby away.

Boo also on Michelle, who would be well-advised to do the world a favor and put the screws to her hair-yanking little maniac. I suppose in a couple of years Michelle will be back posting a note from her neighbor who takes umbrage over her 4-year-old’s endearing penchant for dismembering household pets when she’s bored.

Way to enable, Michelle. Lil Pookie’s grip is only going to get stronger. Once Baby Angel’s “Terrible Twos” hair-yanking tantrums begin, Michelle will need the wig.

And what kind of a childcare professional keeps her long, flowing locks within the reach of toddlers? Little hands can get tangled in it by accident even without malicious hair-pulling intent. If I were Michelle, I’d send Ms. Linda a hairnet and a coupon for the “Bieber” at Supercuts.

Putting her DNA sample in the note is just bitchy. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ms. Linda yanked out Angel’s fresh tuft of baby hair in retribution and stuck in on the wall as a warning to the other kids.

The down side is that up to 1.5% of men and 3.4% of women who suffer from ‘glo’s trichotillomania are now subject to being over-reported to CPS for ‘reasonable suspicion’ of child abuse.
Well, it’s job security for the civil servants, I guess…and for their shrinks.

If I were Michelle, I’d call the authorities. Her baby clearly suffers from trichotillomania-by-proxy, and is therefore disabled and being discriminated against. Looks like Ms. Linda’s about to find herself on the wrong side of the ADA.

Ooooooo, ooooo, I TOTALLY forgot, but I have this cousin (perhaps once removed or a second cousin, I don’t really know how that works) and she has that…what you said. She not only pulls out all of her eyebrows and eyelashes, but she pulls out all of her cat’s eyelash/eyewhiskers, too!!! Or she did, until her mom caught wise, took the cat to the in-laws and checked the cousin in for some inpatient therapy.

: / yuck. Am I the only one grossed out by the idea of receiving a piece of paper with a clump of someone’s hair stuck to it? Tomorrow the lil’ darlin’ surprises the pee out of Ms. Patchy-scalp, and Michelle & hubby may be gettin’ all kinds of body fluid samples taped to their daily report.

so that ‘s how it is when one year merely plays with hair? So what about when she is sick/constipated and stuff. Does she rip the head off like a female spider?
I think teacher is totally justified to send this note. look at that picture it’s not a single strand it’s whole bunch. Whoever is siding with parents, try ripping off your hair, you would know. parents should take much serious stand against baby’s bad habits. (She likes to play with hair, you know. no biggie. she just rips off hair from the scalp here and there. Who cares? WTF?) Baby does not know better but it’s their responsibility to make her not to rip the hair off from other people scalp. She is much nicer than she should be. She sent a note with touch of humor instead of just freaking out. she knows one year olds do not deliberately hurt her but she got her hair pulled out nonetheless.
Team sweet teacher all the way.

I am proud of you Wotv that you cut your hair and not your son
May be then that should come from parents to teacher. Hey miss my one year old has bad habit of pulling hair out when she is sleepy please be careful, pull your hair up or something. We are working on her habit but mean while please be careful. How hard it is? Definitely not harder than oh she loves playing with hair, and hair gets rip off ha ha attitude.
It’s all about attitude. Michelle’s attitude does not help at all here. (playing? really? she ripped off her hair strands) Babies are babies but parents are adults.

Sorry, ty, I was tired, and what I should have said was that while I had the chance to comment the same last night while the page was still virgin fresh, I didn’t, as the words and thought-processes in my mind were nowhere near as linear and clear as those of bubby M, nor anywhere near as quippy and sharp as your own comment. Just so you all know that I’m not one of those sad “I coulda been a contenda” types (but I could have been, but just so you know, that I’m not ).

My apologies. I fucked up the giggle-braxing the other day, too. The game is slipping. Maybe it’s time to switch off the red light.

rose,
You’re on the order of half a day off time-zone-wise still.
Don’t get all self-flagellant on us, OK ? (Unless we can sell tickets.)
I don’t think anyone here’s playing for blood or money (not any of mine).
You’ll always be a contenda on my tip sheet. (JGI)

Coupla ideas:
1) When I catch a G/Brax error quikly, I request deletion.
Once that’s done, sometimes It lets me repost verbatim in the correct spot, and sometimes I have to tweak the comment a little.
2) Either the first or second time I had the first comment, I put up a link to what I thought was a cleverly corresponding YT clip. Pfffft x 10⑦ !!
Maybe many folks here have slow enough connections that YT clips are a hassle, or maybe they’re just blocked by filters at work.
I’d hate to think that PAN attracts melophobics (he says chalking up 47 meager points and dreading ‘glo’s or rose’s next Scrabble play).
ty

rose,
See ? Some days you’re not on your game…
other days, well, every little thing you do is magic.
Seriously, that’s not just a slight off hand remark.

TOS & CB,
Since we’re just throwing some shit up on the walls of Ms. Linda’s cage and seeing if anything stincks, I’ll Venture a guess that my affliction’s name is Mellow-Fellow-phobia. I’m not really afraid of these guys, but their first two clips were my gateway clips to the real thing of the 3rd,
and the 2nd clip’s title is eerily coincidental enough to be hair raising.

Where’s that wet nurse when you really need her? The extended family who pitch in? Indentured servants? Bring back living with the in-laws, the sisters and brothers, and sister and brother in-laws too, I say, so that raising children stays in the family and one person does not carry all the responsibility.

I know! Why isn’t every parent independently rich so they can all stay home with their kids all day?

Oh, you mean only the moms should stay home? I see. So single moms, and women whose husbands are out of work, and people in significant debt should just go on public assistance! That’s what you mean, right?

Daycare isn’t always ideal, but for some families it works out well. My son has gone part-time for many years and loves it; he gets to socialize with other kids and learn from adults other than his parents. Don’t worry — we have lots of time with him too. It works for us.

Mostly, don’t judge other people’s choices, as long as their kids don’t turn out to be unrepentant hellions. (And I see a fair amount of those out in public with their parents, not daycare providers .)

BTW, I don’t think this baby qualifies as a hellion yet — she’s too young to know what she’s doing. Team Learn How To Extract An Infant’s Hand From Your Hair!

Calm down, Edie! Not judging, just having an opinion. I happen to believe that things might be a bit better in this world if parents were able to actively raise their own children. Mother or father. If I had greater earning potential than Papa then you bet he’d be staying home with the little one. I believe strongly that lifestyles can be adjusted to make the nurturance of our progeny our priority in life.

P.S. I was a single mother for more than 15 years after my first husband and I divorced and I managed to stay home with my children. It is available to work from home. I know that you’re thinking I must be a remarkable and unique woman to have managed to live by my convictions so dedicatedly and at the expence of the stellar career I could have had cashiering at the local 24 hr Nuke & Puke, but I think I’m just slightly above average.

I’m qualified to teach, so if I end up a single mom I should teach from home? Not sure how that’s supposed to work…

It’s a cultural change that’s needed, not a parental change. Most people would love to stay home and raise their own kids, but can’t. Pregnancy is treated like a disease, babies are an inconvenience (and a liability to a business), and children cause interruptions… we need to change that before we can judge anyone for using childcare.

I don’t have kids because they’re expensive and I don’t want to cut my hair.

I know, mamason.
Some people think they can only do what they trained to do in a certain place.
Tutoring at home can be very lucrative if you market it as home-schooling for those who can’t be home to school their kids themselves.

Bonus info: The Federal Government mandates that pregnancy be considered an illness. This has been the law of the land since 1978, that’s why your health insurance must cover it.
Before the law was passed insurance carriers often considered pregnancy a natural/voluntary condition, therefore not covered under insurance designed to cover only loss due to illness or injury.

Mama, being purely irreverent here, but God kind of took your advice on Easter Sunday. I think he rose Jesus from the dead because, a) it was his duty as a father, and b) Mary and Joseph were such poor foster parents, though the jury is kind of out on whether Mary was technically a foster parent.
Anyway, they just couldn’t keep Jesus out of trouble and from falling in with bad company. Hey, when the Rapture comes we all go hurtling into the sky, don’t we? I’m kind of looking forward to seeing that.

@22.9 Sadly C.B. that’s only partly true. Pregnancy must be covered by health insurance if you receive insurance through a “group” plan from your employer. If you are self employed and purchasing your own health insurance, pregnancy coverage is optional and often unavailable.

Maybe people shouldn’t be having children if both parents need to work to afford them. Or just have one, instead of four or five or six. Sometimes two kids is too much and forces both parents to go out and work. Why do people feel entitled to having as many children as they want at the expense of not getting to actually raise them?

Oh, don’t worry mamasan, I’m not in a tizzy or anything. What just bugs me is the very weird assumption that having your kids go to daycare or pre-K is “letting other people raise them.” I don’t know any kids who are in daycare 24/7!

Sure, I let my kid be regularly exposed to other kids and other responsible, kind adult authority figures. Good for his constitution. But my husband and I ARE raising him, and the fact that he’s in pre-K for part of the week lets us give him our undivided attention when we’re all together. And he knows we’re the ones ultimately in charge of loving him and bringing him up.

And I have a flexible work schedule too — often working at night from home (like right now, except when I get distracted by PAN — so I can have more time with the kid. It works for us. Other situations work for other people.

K, true the law I referenced applies to Group Health Insurance, but Maternity Benefits are offered by many carriers of individual health insurance as a separate rider.
Just because one carrier or another may not offer it, doesn’t mean it cannot be readily had…for a price.
Fact is, 95% of persons with health insurance in the US have group insurance (“Many people receive their health insurance coverage through their employers. However, 5 percent of Americans buy health insurance on an individual basis, including:

* Self-employed people
* Early retirees
* Students
* Workers without health benefits

Regulations governing how private health coverage is sold vary from state to state. ”

I work in a daycare and fill those sort of sheets out. It doesn’t take long and we do it when they’re asleep so it doesn’t take away from our time with them. 11ish is pretty common for lunch in daycares, when you have a group of children to consider it makes the daily routine easier to maintain. Our kids sleep for at least an hour and a half, some longer… 2 hours 20 minutes doesn’t seem unreasonable.

My thought is, it’s a baby. A 1 year old child, for crying out loud. Probably not even walking yet. The kid isn’t doing this maliciously, she can’t form conscious thought yet to BE malicious. However, she can rip out a chunk, and “Ms. Linda” needs a serious set of instructions if she can’t keep her hair back from a baby. No long hair in grabbing distance, no dangling earrings, no necklaces with which to choke you and don’t stick your fingers near a mouth. It’s rather simple.

Mom, however, needs to recognize, this is not ‘cute’. This is not ‘my daughter likes to cuddle’ when tired. This is something she needs to correct. And maybe that comes with instructing teacher and kid, ‘Hair is a No-No’.

Oh there’s a lot of “NO”, no pulling/hitting/biting/ whatever the bad behavior is and then we redirect. One year olds are by far the hardest group to deal with..they are still babies, and people don’t think they know the meaning of NO, but they do. The worst offenders are the parents. I would mention something to the parents about the hair pulling, and that we at the daycare would be discouraging playing with hair as a comfort. Parents have to make children follow rules as well.

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